Thanks everyone!

It’s been heart-warming to read (now that I can read again) all your good wishes and remarks, and it’s about time that I thanked you, individually and as a group, for your support and encouragement.

Thanks!!

Six weeks and a day ago, someone turned my lights off – put my processor into hibernate and pulled the plug.   That was the last I knew until about two weeks ago, when it began to occur to me that I was a person tucked up in an intensive care ward, that the wonderful caring person who helped look after me each day was in fact my angel of a wife – Boadicea, and that it was time for me to fire up the backups, reboot my software, engage the language routines and start behaving like a human again.   It took a couple of days to get going, but, touch wood and whistle, it’s been upwards ever since.

So, a week ago tomorrow I was released to continue my recuperation at home.   I am indebted to the paramedics and ambos who took me safely and swiftly to the emergency theatre; to the doctors and surgeons of the team who spent three hours reconstructing my cranium, and to the nurses and specialist technicians who kept me functioning while I was away with the fairies in cyber, hyperspace where time has no meaning.   To my GP and all the other experts who did their essential best.   Thank you all.

I’ll spare you the details – and I’d probably get them wrong – but if you met me you’d probably be hard pushed to detect anything wrong (though there are still a few things that have yet to put themselves right).   Perhaps I’m a little more polite and tolerant than I used to be, and readier to acknowledge other people’s point of view, but there again, perhaps I’m not.

Best wishes to all Charioteers. 😀

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Author: Bearsy

A Queensland Bear with attitude

22 thoughts on “Thanks everyone!”

  2. I know I do not appear here regularly, but I am very glad that you are better. May you have perfect healing. Best wishes.

  4. Good to hear from you Bearsy, may your recovery go from strength to strength And how right you are to mention your lovely Boadicea as the love of a good woman can often make the vital difference. God bless all good women everywhere.

  5. Many thanks Soutie, Shermeen and Furry.
    It’s quite weird that by the time I was capable of worrying, there was no further need to. 😀

  8. I’d like to add my thanks to everyone here for keeping the site going. I know I didn’t comment very often, but it was some light and most welcome relief to look in and read the posts and comments :-).

  11. Welcome back Bearsy and best wishes for continuing good health.

    “Perhaps I’m a little more polite and tolerant than I used to be, and readier to acknowledge other people’s point of view”

    Say it isn’t so! 🙂

  12. Welcome back, big fella. And here is to your good lady wife, who has done a sterling job in both looking after you and keeping us all informed. We all hope things go well for both of you from here on in.

  15. Great to hear from you again, Bearsy. Boadicea has been brilliant, coping with us and you.

  17. Good to hear you are on the mend and feeling human again.
    Take it easy and don’t rush into things.
    I wouldn’t advise the London Marathon this weekend 🙂

  19. Very good to see you firmly clenched to your twig!
    Best wishes for a full recovery.

  22. Bearsy, good evening,

    Late to the party as ever, I am delighted to see that you have made such a good recovery. I hope that it will be a full one in due course.

    I thought of you last night as I settled down after work to watch the Windies chasing a very sporting declaration by Pup. Pity it all ended so tamely, thanks to the weather.

    Sorry to read about Michael Lynagh. Still, it looks like Brisbane (and the health care that is clearly available there) might have been not a bad place for him to have been.

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